In a trench war, depth matters, and on a hilltop outside Orikhiv, 35 miles southeast of Zaporizhzhia, the Russians were dug in more than six feet deep. They’d fashioned a sunken city, a maze of crossed trails extending nearly a mile and commanding an unobstructed view five miles in all directions.
From that hilltop, known to the Ukrainian military as Position X, the Russians controlled the vital road south. If the Russians were to push forward, to take Orikhiv and
This article is based on interviews and research by the Reckoning Project, a multinational group of journalists and researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Ukraine.
On the afternoon of February 24, 2022, two Russian army commanders, wearing black uniforms with no insignia, entered the office of Valentyn Heyko, the shift supervisor at the Chornobyl State Enterprise. In a room with a window overlooking the decommissioned reactor, General Sergey Burakov and Colonel Andrey Frolenkov told Heyko that they had
Jan Dvorkin had raised and nurtured his adopted son in Moscow for seven years until, one day in May, the Russian authorities notified him they were revoking custody. A woman Mr. Dvorkin knew had filed an official complaint, saying that because he was transgender and gay, he was an unfit parent.
When Mr. Dvorkin asked the woman why she had reported him, she told him he had brought it on himself, and “that I could have easily avoided it by
Ukrainian forces pressed their counteroffensive through the Russian-occupied southeast on Thursday (27 July), capturing the village of Staromaiorske in a campaign to drive a wedge through Russian defensive positions.
The counteroffensive has focused on securing villages on the southward push and areas around the eastern city of Bakhmut, taken by Russian forces in May after months of battles. Ukrainian officials have reported slow, steady progress.
Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged intensified Ukrainian attacks over the last few days, but said
KYIV — Ukraine has ended its ban on its athletes competing against Russians and Belarusians in international competitions — so long as Moscow’s and Minsk’s athletes are participating under a neutral banner.
However, the ban is still in force stopping Ukrainians from competing against Russians and Belarusians who perform under their national flags, use the national symbols in public during sports events, or make any public statements or actions backing the Russian or Belarusian regimes. In those cases, Ukrainian athletes
One of Ukraine’s goals is to reach the Sea of Azov, about 60 miles south of Orikhiv, cutting off Russian forces between the south and east of the country, said the first DOD official.
The New York Times first reported that Ukraine had begun the main thrust of its counteroffensive.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke by phone on Wednesday with Andriy Yermak, head of the office of the president of Ukraine, according to a readout from Ukrainian President Volodymyr
A year ago, in January, I went to Moscow to learn what I could about the coming war—chiefly, whether it would happen. I spoke with journalists and think tankers and people who seemed to know what the authorities were up to. I walked around Moscow and did some shopping. I stayed with my aunt near the botanical garden. Fresh white snow lay on the ground, and little kids walked with their moms to go sledding. Everyone was certain that there
A Dutch court today cleared one suspect and convicted three others in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.
Two former Russian intelligence officers – Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinskiy – as well as Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, who was working for Russia, were found guilty of murdering the 289 people onboard the Boeing 777 in 2014.
A third former Russian intelligence officer, Oleg Pulatov, was acquitted by the Dutch court due to a lack of evidence.
Presiding Judge Hendrik
Queueing in their cars and wheeling suitcases along the road, photographs show Russians continuing to stream across the border into Georgia as they fear Putin’s mobilisation, even as the despot today delivered a ranting annexation speech in Moscow.
Roads were jampacked full of traffic as people made a desperate dash for freedom at the Kazbegi border crossing in the Kazbegi municipality of Stepantsminda.
Downcast Russians had packed their cars full of their belongings as they fled Putin’s call-up for hundreds
Last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be laid to rest today in a Moscow ceremony, but without the fanfare of a state funeral and with the glaring absence of President Vladimir Putin.
With Russia isolated by its military campaign in Ukraine, no foreign leaders are expected to attend what will be a relatively low-key affair to remember one of the great political figures of the 20th century.
Gorbachev – affectionately known in the West as Gorby – died on Tuesday
